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Getting noticed is the name of the game for a college freshman, and Jessica knows she has just scored a touchdown. I am nearly as fortunate. Like Jessica and the rest of the 20 new Franklin & Marshall students on my hall, I am attending a getting-to-know-you session called by my resident adviser -- a lanky upperclassman named Dan -- to introduce myself and make an attention- grabbing statement. I think I have a winner: I am 39 years old and I am going through freshman orientation on assignment for TIME. I needn't have wasted my breath. One look...
Nothing New: The only touchdown drive of the game, a four-play, nine-yard Harvard drive in the first quarter, was set up by a fumbled punt return by Columbia's Chuck Dimitroff. The junior defensive back camped under a high, Derek Lewis punt at his own five-yard line and committed a major gaffe by calling for a fair catch and trying to catch the ball in the sun. Dimitroff flubbed the catch, and Harvard's Jeff Wood pounced on the ball at the nine-yard line...
...action was hardly NFL quality. Both punters got off 10-yarders. Both kickers shanked 45-yard field goal attempts. The receivers had more drops than a bottle of Visine. The first touchdown was scored when the Titan reserve QB tripped over his feet in his own end zone and fumbled the football...
...have the bucks grown. The National Football League's new pact, approved a week ago, is a stunner even by the rapidly inflating standards of the medium: $3.6 billion, divvied up among five broadcast and cable networks, to bring every touchdown pass and holding penalty into American homes for the next four years. It is the biggest TV sports deal ever negotiated...
...could let James steal the ball and throw a touchdown pass to young Tyler Rullman for a three-point play to seal the victory," the Hoop God said, getting into it. "Then Coach Roby could jump around on the sidelines, pump his fist to the band--all the things he's always wanted...